About Us
The University of Chichester Swim Team prides itself on being a team for all, offering training for swimmers of all abilities. Whether you’re a competitive swimmer or have been in the past, swim for fitness or just a bit of fun, we’d love you to join our team. We offer two pool training sessions (one in Chichester and one in Bognor) as well as a land training session each week.
Each year we offer some of our competitive and fitness swimmers the opportunity to travel to Sheffield to compete in 2 separate BUCS (British Universities and College Sport) competitions. These swimmers are selected based on attendance and effort. We also offer the whole team the opportunity to compete in our annual Varsity competition against Winchester, a great day full of team spirit. This year we have also entered BUSL (British University Swimming League). We are excited to have our swimmers compete with a range of universities in a friendly and competitive environment.
Although we don’t set out to be the best university team in the country, we will always put in 100% at competitions and training to improve our swimming skills throughout the year. We also have a huge social aspect attending WSIHE with different themes and doing socials together with games, just like a lot of the other teams at uni. We also offer ‘sober socials’, the perfect opportunity to spend time with the team outside of the university environment. Joining a sports team like swimming will make your university experience better than you could imagine. You will form friendships that will last years, as members of the team become your second family.
Competitive swimmers are asked to attend the majority of sessions, particularly swim sessions. Fitness swimmers should also attempt to attend as many sessions as possible, as the benefits of swimming are countless.
For more information and to contact us follow our Instagram: @ucsu_swimteam and Tik Tok: @ucsuswimming.
As president this year I'm so excited to help the team continue to achieve some amazing things like we did last year such as winning Varsity, making BUSL finals and competing as a group at BUCS! Joining swim last year was one of the best decisions, it has allowed me to make friends as we compete as a team in competitions around the country. This year i'm looking forward to meeting new faces, enjoying many more socials and WSIHEs with different themes each week. I’m looking forward to seeing how this year goes! (Aimee Watts - president 26/27)
As Vice present this year i can’t wait to meet all of you and help to continue our huge wins we achieved last year like winning varsity and making it to the BUSL finals as well as competing in the BUCs short and long courses. I was an ex competitive swimmer before i joined uni, i was apprehensive of joining swimming again but i can tell you it’ll be the best thing you do if you compete, have competed or just want to swim for social and fitness aspects. This year im most looking forward to the WSIHE socials and meeting all new faces and making new memories. I look forward to meeting you all. (Harry Brunton - vice president 26/27)